5,300-year-old possible kidney or bladder stone found in Bronze Age man's burial in Russia
Grape-size calculus linked to chronic infection may have contributed to death
A Bronze Age man buried in a monumental tomb in southwestern Russia around 5,300 years ago likely suffered from a chronic urinary tract infection associated with a grape-size stone consistent with a kidney or bladder stone, researchers report. The stone-like object, found among the skeleton's hand bones during laboratory analysis, may have contributed to his death.